This is Lieutenant Commander Ward. He died today. He was a jump jet pilot in the Royal Navy.
"On the evening of December 2 2007, towards the end of a sortie over Afghanistan in a ground attack Harrier of 800 Naval Air Squadron, Ward was called in to support a team of US Army rangers pinned down by more than 70 Taliban fighters.
The rangers had suffered one serious casualty and their radio operator had been wounded. Though low on fuel Ward, at great risk to himself, descended to low level and, with no weapons left, made several noisy low-level passes while he called up another Harrier. This interrupted the Taliban assault and allowed the second Harrier time to deliver a 1000lb air-burst bomb right on target. Some days later, two huge US rangers entered the Harrier operations room at Camp Bastion, having travelled a considerable distance to get there. One picked up Ward in a bear hug and told him: “You saved our lives, Dude!”"
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